on the eve of a referendum on a new constitution is president protest support the draft have clashed with liberal opponents who are against. the seismic decision britain spent on controversial fracking gas extraction despite the practice being blamed for causing earthquakes. president. bill targeting russian officials accused of human rights violations in moscow approved a similar measure in response. to. international

news and comment live from moscow rival rallies and violence some marking the final day before egyptians vote on a new draft constitution up to nineteen people injured in fierce clashes between supporters and opponents of president morsi in alexandria and in the capital tens of thousands from both camps are gathered to let their feelings be known based reporter bill true joins us live now from tokyo square so what is happening in the center of karo we have reports of violence are there any signs of more violence than. we have one day before the referendum here in central cairo and it's calm scenes today which was not really expected people expected there to be. me there are hundreds gathered in tahrir square people who don't know when to run them against the constitution meanwhile i've just come out from the presidential palace where thousands gathered as they have been for the last few weeks chanting against the president and of course against this constitution. which they say is it just

cements we have of course had quite bloody scenes in alexandria egypt second city on the coast where a man in a mosque basically maintained his friday so men made a statement saying people should vote because yes for the constitution and it was important stability clashes broke out within the mosque between pro and see president's supporters and in the end the opposition forces reported that they were attacked by groups wielding machetes and dying broad's ninety people have been injured so far there have been no deaths but we expected that these clashes to be a precedent perhaps and tomorrow when rival groups meet at the polling stations open tell us more about this referendum and exactly what is the significance on that and why is it split the nation so badly. what we're really saying here with commentators saying is two visions of egypt on one side you have the president mohamed morsi with kids is going to scream the muslim isn't brotherhoods and conservative groups like the sun if it's on the other side you've actually had the

opposition forces united for the first time largely liberal left this forces under the banner of the national salvation front it was asian forces saying this constitution will only enforce a presidential dictatorship and then in turn they collect key social and economic rights which is being created by various different rights groups like human rights watch and amnesty in addition they said that it is largely a sharia based constitution. there are articles they say in the constitution which will only encourage a very ultra orthodox interpretation of islamic law which will make egypt essentially islamic country they say of course the constitution was written by an under present assembly and islam is dominated consistent assembly off the liberal back to school systems that will count however on the pro constitution side they are also saying as i heard today in the constitution rallies that this is the only way for a peaceful transition to democracy here in egypt that we need a constitution then we can go to parliamentary elections in the process can be moved on to what we were and. also saying that it is

a good thing the constitution is. two visions of egypt here not when they were not having any idea about what the outcome of the referendum will be is the million dollar question here and the subject of conversation across the country and you know what who will win will this be a yes to the constitution will this be a no. true reporter live there from talking square. there's been no word about the fate of the ukrainian journalists being held hostage in syria after a deadline for execution set by rebels pulsed on thursday over who's assisted r.t. along with other media outlets during the syrian conflict was abducted by insurgents two months ago they threatened to kill her if a fifty million dollar ransom wasn't paid. to take up the story. well the deadline has passed with no word as to whether or not she is dead or alive she was reportedly kidnapped by the free syrian army and held for ransom of fifty million

u.s. dollars she was taken hostage nearly two months ago and since then has appeared in two separate videos in the first she appeals to the ukrainian government to pay the ransom money and set her free in a second which many believe was made under jus a as she admits to being a spy the point needs to be made that just about everyone believes that this video was made under extreme pressure and dumps the objectiveness of what she was saying now reporters without borders amnesty international and a number of other nongovernmental organizations have called on the free syrian army as well as the syrian national coalition of demanded that they immediately secure her release saying that this is the first taste of the newly lively recognized government at the same time the same rebels image of the holding her have posted a video in which they have said that no russian no ukrainian and no rain in will leave syria alive so there is deep concern as to her fate the german parliament has

approved the deployment of patriot missiles to turkey but it is now also ready to send up to four hundred soldiers to operate the batteries following similar decisions by the u.s. and the netherlands all this to protect our own crew from potential serious attacks but this story german source says there are other reasons for this build up. the reason for staging the missiles on syria's border is not because of an attack by syria because there's actually no likelihood that syria is going to attack turkey and in any case those missiles are to be directed against planes or ballistic missiles not against the artillery shells all mortars that are informing the the turkish border accidentally so the obvious question is why those patriots there speculation is based on the fact that perhaps they are there as the first step. and direct measurement intervention sometime next year and one has to ask the question who did the germans who did the british who did the americans who do you think is

a point in syria they are not supporting groups who are committed to democracy not supporting groups to commit to a political transition in not supporting groups to get into in any way the formation of a transparent state online we've got further insight into the various opposition groups in syria as well as how the deployment of nato weapons in turkey may change the balance of power in the region. president barack obama has signed into law a bill targeting russian officials accused of human rights violations of the moscow parliament begins the process of introducing its own bill in response has more on who the new russian law is targeting. this bill would target those accused of committing human rights crimes against russians some possible examples of that there have been a number of very emotive and controversial cases in the past few years of russian

children adopted by u.s. citizens and in some cases those adoptions have resulted in the deaths or mistreatment of those russian children in one case starts of dmitri yakovlev a young boy he was left inside a car and died in extreme heat some russian lawmakers have considered attaching his name to the bill the bill also targets u.s. citizens accused of kidnapping or illegal imprisonment of russian citizens russia has for a long time so that is opposed to the twenty five year prison sentence given to victor boot a businessman considered by russia considered by america a dangerous arms dealer this russian bill comes as a direct response to the surrogate magnitsky bill passed by u.s. lawmakers recently as a way to target russian officials accused by the us of involvement in the death of

the lawyer sir game magnitsky in prison in russia in two thousand and nine the ignatz key bill has now been signed into law by a us president barack obama. no more stories to catch up with online including the european court of human rights rules for the first time that the cia has used torture as also members of the u.s. intelligence agency sodomized a german citizen who's grown we detained on suspicion of terrorism we got the full story but altered the call. like a millionaire the former c.e.o. of the world's largest nickel producer brings all records in russia with unprecedented payouts leaving. the.

leaders try to wrap up a year of crisis with a little optimism one warning has spoiled the mood the european parliament president criticised the union for taking part in endless debates and told them to actually come up with plans to help people james made way i spoke to him a little earlier he's from the new economics foundation in london says there's little chance these words will lead to any action. i think in this case it's an issue of fine words buttering no person it's the truth is that what the you and the european central bank and backed up by the i.m.f. the international monetary fund have imposed on greece spain and portugal and ireland over the last few years the demand for austerity is precisely the reason that youth unemployment in greece is now around fifty percent and approaching similar levels in much of the rest of southern europe it's the e.u. this being the problem here it's not being part of the solution in any way part of the issue here is the european union has as never been a democratic project in the past i think it was accepted by people because it

delivered the goods it looked like that you'd have more press prosperous societies economic success maybe even paste you have a group of countries that will agree on some things but won't agree on everything and when you start to push them together when they start to end up in a deep economic crisis it's also a crisis of institutions of course they start to squabble and that's what we've seen over the last few years no real agreement on what to do next because everyone has their own somewhat divergent interests and that's germany doesn't want to carry the can for failing greek banks greece doesn't understandably necessarily want to enter implementor stereotypic all these things clash and so of course he starts the disagreements emerging right to the very top. the u.k. government has given the green light to the resumption of the controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking but the methods heavily criticized for its destructive environmental impact has been linked to water pollution and even causing earthquakes on the pretty boy has. quadrille is the only company with a license to conduct fracking in the u.k.

but that's all set to change now that the government has given its blessing for the controversial method of extracting shale gas from underground already operates several wells here in lancashire but the divisive technology was temporarily banned last year and with good reason to the fracking taking place here. minor earthquake says. a local and he's doing very little he said i don't know a lot about it well he should know all about it you're going. to lie shareholders pockets this is not going to benefit. for our children hundreds of miles away in london the capital's outspoken. on six of the nation's prayers and the reserves in america but for residents here in this trying to call corner of england it's a blight on the otherwise peaceful community and the prospect of more fracking

sweeping the countryside is frightening and they keep talking about it being in. reserve. i think the moment. will be. the technology may raise fares but the promise of riches from the rush for shale gas has set politicians pulses racing despite mounting opposition which has spread beyond. high risk activity which as many benefits for foreign investors or very little for the people of britain. it is a short and not very intelligent solution to energy problems they're going to get money out of the drug program to. bring corrupt governments were doing anything for

money i think it's just sort of resource money they can just get the money so this is not really for the country's best interest to do that way brussels isn't convinced either the european parliament is reportedly considering regulating the shale gas industry concerned that britain doesn't know what it's doing by throwing itself wholeheartedly into the controversial practice at the minute we are not self-sufficient in gas and haven't been for a very long time we were but in actual fact we import about half of gas now we see that in the u.s. gas prices are a quarter of what they were i want you to track this suit to output this suit print is much less so there are many reasons why if it comes. would be attractive in terms of purity of life and also probably in terms of price stability and that's what's drowning out the warnings bringing down people's energy bills means politicians and big business can press ahead even though those living in the shadow

of fracking facilities know that the government is playing with fire. well still ahead here the. talks with iran could soon be back on track to run the u.n. atomic agency both praise a recent visit by inspectors despite the team once again being barred from accessing a suspicious military site. plus the bundestag officially limits the level of love you can show your pet but the news and the legislation upsets the country's one hundred thousand open and i'm a lot less on the story after the short break. the

ride that takes your breath away to eating across the sky is always a mohnish who do know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds. are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before migrating to other parts of the world paladins as well as other species at the monish who do low feed. these words are waiting for their parents to bring them food to the best cash for them is in a small areas of lake where the water is relatively fresh as fish cannot survive in the salt of the month and the lakes getting salt every year. and all too fishel reservoir which was failed in the nineteen fifties in the areas hot climate the water evaporates quickly and the local saw as natural sultanas takes over. the drying out of the lake. of the world's biggest populations of small things.

just four hundred animals here protected. it's a place of peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals have been dug around here to cultivate the locals taps broad grassy plains this may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species of the animals here. so i guess antelopes just some forty years ago there were more than two million. living in asia. in the world now people brought the species to the brink of extinction this region has been full thousands of years but now in a relatively short space of time it's vibrant diversity of creatures sweat and farms by men. and.

years of. destruction with. what could have been just ruins. saying a great sacrifice. by human just a. reminder of courage and selflessness. beauty is in.

the news continues now finally there are signs of progress in talks between iran and the un atomic agency off to months of standstill a recent mission to tehran has given rise to expectations that inspectors could be allowed access to iran's nuclear program next year the u.n. team of experts say they were happy with their visit despite a failure to get access to the parchin military base which is suspected of previously housing nuclear activities the u.s. however is stiffening sanctions against iran and america's ally israel is warned it could strike iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail the former top iranian diplomats in an interview with said israel is exploiting the issue to justify its own weapons program. they israelis the are always using your own issue. justifying the nuclear bomb. saying iran is existential

threat for easily but the fact is israel is that. produced nuclear bomb before islamic revolution. where the shah of iran was that easily. israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq because. it produced before of evolution now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so human. to some other international news now here in r.t. is reported at least twenty seven people being killed in the elementary school shooting in the us state of connecticut and that number could include more than ten children according to some sources reports suggest the alleged gunman has been found dead all local schools have been put in to lockdown in newtown where the

incident. israel's foreign minister has resigned following accusations of money laundering and breach of trust. charge on a thursday but denied committing any crime the move comes ahead of israel's upcoming parliamentary elections where the right wing party of lieberman and the prime minister netanyahu was predicted to win a majority. germany's getting tough and heavy petting parliament passed a new. law banning interspecies relationships and that's upset thousands of germans who say the loves of their lives will be taken away. or has more beastly story. well i know mom's best friend and sometimes more than that. i need an animal to be happy life i did not have it there would be something missing there so on one levels only ship with an animal that i can fall in love with your animal in the sexual relationship is not out of the question. these

people make up some of the estimated one hundred thousand zoo of files in germany and i will have started slowly more like child's play some kids playing doctor with each other and it's not necessarily sexual but somewhat small experimentation that leads you further down that path. technically it has been illegal since the killer trees animal welfare laws were relaxed in one nine hundred sixty nine. where sex with animals was dropped from the start you had books. it is led to a boom in the practice and the proliferation of websites and even brothels devoted to it after new laws approved this week come into force the practice will again be considered illegal this group claim there will be a witch hunt when it comes into force. the way this law is written means that all you need is a rumor or accusation for the agency to get involved and take your pet away it also

affects not just those who practice best reality where for example an animal has certain issues and all you need is a suggestion that this could have happened for sex and you got into an accusation spiral that reminds you of very dark times in german history. of the zoo affiliate campaigners say that here in the german parliament there legislating against morality however the law makers themselves say that it's only the welfare of the animals that they care about. we're not policy and morality but we're improving animal protection law we would like to specify that it's forbidden to cause suffering for a sexual relationship but the line is when you cause suffering to an animal for your personal sexual gratification. denmark sweden and belgium currently the only e.u. states with filial law that leaves the prospect that these countries could become a destination for a zoo a fellow tourism german animal rights activists hope the move by the bomb the stock

will become a europe wide ban. he asked who would support a european wide ban and be fairly t. where stand behind other nations and we need to catch up. just outside of berlin as one of the largest animal shelters in europe consent is a major issue while those involved an animal welfare say must be addressed as dogs are loyal even when they're abused they're still going to look as if they're. had to be especially when it gets enough to eat ducks will be happy whatever you dictate but there is not a sign that the dog is enjoying it wouldn't those in relationships with our littles though a confident that their love is legitimate in fear for the future cost that's the one father they fantasize about castrating me or taking my animals away for our friend has found a razor blade in this post with a no do it yourself so we don't have to letters don't arrive too often but they

arrive every now and then in the subway someone was yelling at me calling me names i'm concerned that attacks could become physical. these are all of her charity. twenty five minutes past the hour now on the russian capital tons of business now with britain is being threatened with a downgrade of its aaa rating yeah and in business we're going to be analyzing what this actually means to the markets and bill realistically if it actually makes any difference until well it didn't make a great deal of difference to the u.s. today no it didn't actually that boring rights went down as did front says as well so all of that more details coming up in the business but us and also the break join me right katie thanks a lot thank you. you

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world. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. welcome to business this hour russian mining giant nickel agreed to pay one hundred million dollars in severance bonuses to its chief executive adam it costs to get all the details of this it's going to chew the business does. the story for us why is he getting such a huge amount the sum is a record for modern russia he joined but is nicole in two thousand and eight just four years ago right during these four years katie he was.